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ubuntu-cve-2011-5037

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2011-12-30 01:55

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

Google V8 computes hash values for form parameters without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many crafted parameters, as demonstrated by attacks against Node.js.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-5037	REPORT
	http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903934	REPORT
	http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html	REPORT
	http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-5037	REPORT

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  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:50:03Z",
  "published": "2011-12-30T01:55:00Z",
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}

CVE-2011-5037 (GCVE-0-2011-5037)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-12-30 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:23

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

4 references

URL	Tags
http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903934	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2011-12-28 00:00

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Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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ubuntu-cve-2011-5037

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2011-5037 (GCVE-0-2011-5037)

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